Understanding the "Law" of Testosterone Supply and Demand

[jennypenny]

Great thread, have not read this one before. Definitely describes me to a tee!

How to go about being calmer an less controlling is the tricky bit!

[atomic sagebrush]

You don't try to be calmer and less controlling. That in and of itself is an attempt to control the uncontrollable.

Whenever anyone tries to do that, they just exchange worrying over "whatever it is" for worrying over not being calm. It doesn't work.

What you need to do is accept that there are things in the world that are out of your control that you can do nothing about and one of them is that you have a tendency to be a control freak. Over time, acknowledging this may help a little bit and also the diet does seem to help some of us simmer down a bit over the course of time.

[goodmom]

Great thread Atomic... specially the part where u said most blue swayers doesnt want boy for them it usually is a pressure from hubby , environment extra ... plus like me i always easily think tht its was my fault ...i mean really i do have tht kind of attitude and my sister who gave birth to my adorable nephew has an attitude like " m always right" lol i love her ... thx for the article atomic

[instant]

I got my testosterone tested.. I was at the lower part of the range..

[atomic sagebrush]

We do not have any hard data that proves that blood levels of testosterone mean anything at all for swaying.

Since I wrote this essay in 2011 there is a lot about "testosterone" and swaying that doesn't totally add up to me. I DO ABSOLUTELY still think that the personality stuff I wrote about it in this essay applies, but women have miniscule amounts of testosterone and it's been shown in studies that female T levels are not affecting women's personalities so I am not really sure we're even talking about "testosterone" in and of itself.

I continue to use "testosterone" for a short and easy way to talk about personality factors for swaying, but just understand that having a low T blood test may not mean anything at all for your sway (and probably doesn't because we have had people who had low or high T getting kids of both genders)

[instant]

Thank you for this.. I'm very interested in this topic considering both I and DH suffer from testosterone issues.

[atomic sagebrush]

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